Expiring International Passport

Hi Guys,
I am looking out for those that might have ideas and suggestions about this.

I am travelling to Sweden to school and my program is one and half year. Now the Swedish embassy normally issue a 1 yr visa for study which I am expecting to get anytime soon and they would extend it if you are staying longer. So I expect them to extend it after the first year. The issue is my passport is due to expire in March  2007. Now I want to renew it before I leave so I don't have to worry about validity but the passport guys says I can't renew it yet since it's still a long time away from expiring. I also heard you can renew your passport at a Nigerian embassy abroad. Is that possible. I would not like the situation where I would have to come back to Nigeria just to renew my passport.

Truly as a resident in d states ,i can authoritatively tell you that u can renew ur passports at any nigerian consulate/embassy abroad!!!!..Am pretty 100% sure..but its going to cost u little money..

But mr man,u dey surprise me oooooooo!!!!...Didnt u read ur Passport booklet...Hum...naija man!!! for heavens sake its written on ur passport that u can reknew expiring passports at consulates abroad...U don't even know what u are holding ...The reknewal isnt a big deal,the consulate will just inkstamp ur passport showing its been renewed...Chikena